I didn't see much info on this while searching through the forums, so if this is a repeat I apologize in advance, but in case it isn't here we go....

I am running an Octane2 with both a V8 and an ESI board. I am told this is an unsupported configuration but it seems to work nicely!! It took a little bit to get it working, namely I only had OpenGL and thus MPlayer, Quake3, etc on the ESI driven monitor (worked intermittently and not much fun). So....I got it to switch over to the V8 by re-symlinking libGL.so and libGLcore.so in:

respectively. After that I didn't even need a reboot and everything just worked. It would seem that the only drawback is that I can't have OpenGL on both screens, but that's fine with me, I'm using the other one for gaim, firefox, etc. You CAN also run at different refresh rates across the two monitors too, so don't worry about that.

To get it running from scratch install the XiO card load IRIX from or boot into the miniroot and do:

keep *install fresh

This will add the additional drivers you need for the extra card. After it reboots do the fix described above and if your machine works as well as mine did you should be all set! Additionally, you can do:

chkconfig -f xinerama on

to enable xinerama (desktop spanned across both monitors) which also seems to work great.